King Ledley Rubbishes Retirement Talk

[guiltyparty]

Ledley keeps saying this. Why can't any of you just trust him and be positive about it? If Ledley says it, you believe him. It's Ledley!

He's also constantly out injured, which goes completely against his statements. If he can only play one in three, he may as well retire. I mean, I love the guy, but there's no doubt his inability to play regularly is damaging the team unit, however great he can play in one-off games.

As someone else said, the proof is in the pudding. If he comes back and plays a full season, great. But his history, particularly recent, doesn't back this up, and he isn't getting any younger. Which is why people concerned.

 

[the_king]

Any true Spurs fan would have steered clear of the rumours and waited for Ledley to come out.

On top of the moon.

Heres to next season, Champions League, Uefa Cup and the return of the best player in the world!

CHEERS!

 

[guiltyparty]

Any true Spurs fan would have steered clear of the rumours and waited for Ledley to come out.

On top of the moon.

Heres to next season, Champions League, Uefa Cup and the return of the best player in the world!

CHEERS!

And I'm sure you'll be the first on here whinging if he doesn't make a full recovery.

True Spurs fan? Get over yourself. Try a heavy dose of realism once in a while. Heard it all before from Ledley

 

[al_pacino]

I does seem some people can't wait for him to announce his retirement just to prove they were right all along. Pretty sad.

 

[Leachie]

Any true Spurs fan would have steered clear of the rumours and waited for Ledley to come out.

On top of the moon.

Heres to next season, Champions League, Uefa Cup and the return of the best player in the world!

CHEERS!

Ledley's gay?? Eek

 

[guiltyparty]

I does seem some people can't wait for him to announce his retirement just to prove they were right all along. Pretty sad.

No one wants him to retire. Do you think Spurs fans want to lose a £25m player just like that? But, at the same, the uncertainty, the lack of clarification of what exactly his injury is and the constant false dawns of his comeback are holding Spurs back. That and the zealots are just plain annoying, basing their on hope and dreams rather than what they see with their own eyes.

 

[al_pacino]

I'm basing my hope on Ledley saying he's not going to retire.

 

[guiltyparty]

I'm basing my hope on Ledley saying he's not going to retire.

There's a big difference between him not retiring and being of consistent use to Spurs though. He says he's not going to retire, but he can't say that he will definitely be able to play every game, which a lot of people on here seem to be getting carried away with. It's not the same thing. Where do you draw the line? If he has another season like this one? Is him retiring really the issue, or whether we can build a team round him, like we so need to do? Spurs are bigger than one man, even Ledley. We don't owe him a living.

 

[DC_Boy]

Says a lot about our medical team...

Doc: So Ledley, how are you at the moment.
Ledley: My knee is causing me all sorts of problems but I really enjoy playing and so don't want to stop.
Doc: Excellent, that is good news. See you soon...

MW - I find it hard to believe that a lot of people haven't picked up how just how worrying this quote is

'Gradually I just made it worse and when I eventually did have the operation it was maybe a little bit more complex than it should have been'

 

[DC_Boy]

in respect to Ledley's honesty, realism and whether i believe him and Ramos that King will be fine once fit next season? No it doesn't worry me.

From the perspective of our medical teams competence pre-Ramos? Yes.

I hope that recent decisions like not playing him for the rest of the meaningless season, are as sign of improvments in their judgement and short-sightedness.

On behalf of myself and others i apologise for not commenting on it the first time you quoted it :grin:

Thank you Triks - I can't believe how few people have picked up on this - Leds has said as close to posssible - the whole thing has been a major **** up

Now I'm not going to start the blame game- cos I don't know who's to blame - but to me it's all gone massivley wrong with King's career and possibly our resurgence and it needn;t have been as bad as it was

 

[Flatters]

Any true Spurs fan would have steered clear of the rumours and waited for Ledley to come out.

On top of the moon.

Heres to next season, Champions League, Uefa Cup and the return of the best player in the world!

CHEERS!

Unlike guiltyparty for not trusting Ledley. :up:

 

[guiltyparty]

Unlike guiltyparty for not trusting Ledley. :up:

:razz:

 

[spoddams]

That interview came from myfreesport.co.uk - there's also interviews with Ramos & Berbatov - both interviews seem to be quoted in a few articles of the last few days (I think they were originally published Thursday/Friday?) - it's a freebie commuter paper.

http://www.myfreesport.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=968

 

[eddiebailey]

I hope to see the return of the King, but we need to learn to do without him. It is clear that in the last close season our planning assumption was that Leds would be fit. I hope we do not make the same assumption for next season.